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Individual Speaker Profile


Date Joined: December 15, 2020
Country: United States
Home Town:
Zip Code: 97124
Registered for Upcoming Summit: No
Affiliations
  • Intel Corporation - From 1997-01-27 (Current)
Statement of Interest

<p>I am interested to open software upstream development, open source technology innovations, using open source software to solve business problems and enable customers, as well as technology promotion and volunteering in open source community. </p><p>I am very passionate in growing people, mentoring people in career development, especially helping diversity people such as technical females to grown in STEM career path. </p>

Areas Of Expertise
  • Open source software strategy
  • cloud open source software

Bio

Grace Lian is a senior director of Cloud Software Engineering team in Intel. She leads a global team to work on open source cloud software technologies, including OpenStack, k8s, Kata containers, Cloud Hypervisor, Envoy, Istio, Ceph, and Akraino etc. She also drives the strategy in the cloud native software domains for Intel.

Grace is an open source veteran. She started to work on open source software from Carrier Grade Linux project back to 2001. She was engineering manager for the first Linux team in Intel China. The team became OTC (Open Source Technology Center) China and has grown many open source talents for the community. She has long time experience leading global engineering teams on open source software development, touching layers of system software (OS, Web/HTML5, virtualization, orchestration, SDN/NFV, SDS, cloud and edge etc.), bringing open source values to business and successfully supported many customers.

Grace has been working for Intel since 1997. She worked in Intel China till 2014 and moved to US. Now she is based in Oregon. 


Willing to present via video conference: Yes
Willing to travel to any country: Yes
Fluent in
  • English
  • Chinese

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